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Rapid Fire
Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.
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If you say “Black Box” again I’m escaping to the Cloud
Just a short one—I’m in Orono, Maine today at a conference on Agency and Reasoning in Games . Tomorrow, I’ll be giving a talk on board...
Sep 27, 2024


The books Elon pretends he’s read
“I read a lot of books,” says Elon Musk. Apparently one of them is Superintelligence, the highly-influential book that AI moguls from Sam...
Jun 14, 2024


Quantity as Quality?
I need to take a break from proofreading my dissertation (I’m turning it in today to defend this summer!) to write something else. So...
May 10, 2024


What makes You think you’re so Special? (a reluctant defense of X-Risk)
I spent this past week at The Midwest Ethics Symposium on AI presenting my research and meeting lots of great folks from academia and...
Apr 19, 2024


I got Published
Neat! You can check out a free version of my paper “Mutual Aid as Effective Altruism” here. (The final, professionally edited and typeset...
Aug 18, 2023


No blog post BUT...
Come check out Who’s Responsible for ChatGPT?, the free Zoom conference Cargile and I have been organizing for months! It starts...
Aug 2, 2023


Protagonists aren’t always Good Guys
i was hoping that the oppenheimer movie would inspire a generation of kids to be physicists but it really missed the mark on that. let's...
Jul 28, 2023
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